Journal

Training for Gold

February 13, 2022

In May of 2017, the inevitable finally happened. I witnessed my father take his last breath on a mattress we set up for him on his bedroom floor. He was 75. I had just come back from being in Seoul, Korea for eight months acting in plays with the Seoul Shakespeare Company (I was cast…

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Biohacking 101 (Letter to my MBA Cohort)

October 23, 2021

Howdy fellow MB/A’ers,  With all the shout-outs and interest in biohacking, I thought I’d share a quick Biohacking 101 post to get anyone started on their biohacking journey. Because honestly, if you’re dead set on being the best that you can be in this world, you’ll need to know how to optimize the instrument/machine/engine that…

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A Call for Scientists, AI, and Big Data in our Government

June 7, 2020

This was written as an open letter to the producers of Biohack the World. My dear co-producers, As I’m preparing to write the next mailer (and future mailers), I want to impart to you my disposition as a technologist and futurist with regard to recent events and the current political landscape. As you’re probably aware,…

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Creating the Healthiest Big City in the World

April 12, 2020

We’ve been socially conditioned since birth to take part in this vastly unsustainable system that has long been decoupled from any consideration for ecological sustainability. We’ve abandoned our balance with nature opting instead for this infinite-growth, consumer-driven market economy, on a planet with finite resources and extremely delicate and interconnected life systems. And gone unchecked, our current paradigms and ways of thinking not only threaten our immediate health but are eventually going to drive us all off a cliff. Is that not insanity?

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My top 5 goals for 2018

January 13, 2018

Launch my health and fitness travel show, HIIT Me. Roadblock: finalizing the pitch deck for networks. To-do’s: lock in a strategic PR partner for the show; find sponsors; schedule shoot dates. Why: to inspire others to take control of their own health; this is essentially the start to my NYC mayoral campaign. Launch my health…

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SACRIFICE

January 13, 2018

From time to time when I would get into a situation where I couldn’t avoid a conversation with my Dad, he would ask me what I was doing with my time, if I was being “productive”. He had some nerve. It would absolutely shame him to know how hard I work, day in and day…

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Dear Senator McCain

July 22, 2017

Dear Senator McCain: I am a fan of yours and aspire to someday follow in your footsteps to the Senate. I was saddened to hear the recent news of your diagnosis. However I believe that not only is there is a clear path to victory over your illness, there is a tremendous opportunity to show…

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BNP 90-second Elevator Pitch Competition

June 22, 2016

This 90-second pitch turned into a speech… 18 years ago, I approached a VC for the first time and said, “I have an idea that can take down AOL.” I was 20 years old, a junior out of NYU and working as the lead web developer at a media startup. Paul Graf–I met him at…

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My life is series of bad B-movies

March 26, 2016

My life is series of bad B-movies. At least that’s what my first acting teacher told me. I’ll never forget those first six weeks at William Esper Studio, my first real go at acting after years of odd IT jobs. Deb always seemed so vexed by me which I couldn’t help but internalize; it consumed me…

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